MIUI 6.3.31 China dev ROM flashed using Mac OS X

I read this thread about Lollipop available for my Redmi 2 Prime and got curious.
My phone is  a Redmi 2 Pro (aka Redmi 2 TD-LTE, Redmi 2XTDpro, Hongmi 2 enhanced, HM2014813, wt86047, 红米手机2 移动增强版 – Why so many different names?) ¹
Flashed it to MIUI 6.3.31 Developer beta from 7.1.2 stable today – which was hard because there is no Mi Flashing tool or Mi Suite for Mac OS X.

First I had a hard time finding the current ROM. The version linked in the thread mentioned above is obviously outdated. But the English MIUI site only offers a download for the Readmi 2XWC which is the China Unicorn/China Telecom version. To find the current China Mobile version (which is the correct version for the Redmi2TD models) I had to resort to the Chinese MIUI site using Bing and Google translation. Originally I wanted to download a fastboot rom (which might be easier to flash) but I could only find a download for a Recovery ROM. Didn't even try to find a global rom. There probably are only unofficial multilingual ROMs² for the Redmi2TD.

Copied the download link address and pasted it into my MacBooks Terminal window to download:

cd Downloads && curl -O http://bigota.d.miui.com/6.3.31/miui_HM2XTDPro_6.3.31_c76c2ebd40_5.1.zip

While waiting for the download to finish I read the MIUI System Update Flashing Guide. The first sentence got me headaches:

Please wipe all data in Recovery mode if you want to update to a discontinuous ROM version

I copied the downloaded ROM.zip to sdcard/downloaded_rom/ on my Redmi. But WIPE ALL DATA as mentioned above deletes that file. Further more when rebooting the system I had to go through the MIUI setup to be able to launch the Updater app. What's the meaning in wiping all data if one is reentering half of the data during the system setup afterwards.
My solution was to WIPE ALL DATA in Recovery mode, booting into Debug mode (see picture below) by pressing Power Button and Vol+. I always needs at least 2 attempts to get there. After that I could use "adb push" to copy the ROM file to "sdcard/update.zip" without booting the system.

Redmi 2 Debug mode (pre Lollipop)

After that I let the Redmi reboot into Recovery mode which could be selected in Debug mode menu and did the Recovery install. What a pain! There should be an easier way to do this!

Update: Finally found the fastboot ROM 6.3.31 dev beta for the Redmi 2XTD:

http://bigota.d.miui.com/6.3.31/wt86047_pro_images_6.3.31_20160307.0000.16_5.1_cn_5350bf11cf.tgz

You can find the fastboot download in the Chinese fastboot flashing guide.

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¹ Easiest way to determine the exact model to remove the battery. There is a label in the battery compartment.

² Anyone searching for a Global ROM might have a look at xiaomi.eu. They just released a multilingual 6.3.31 ROM for the wt86047 (HM2014813, Redmi 2XTD china mobile).